From here.
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The justices ruled unanimously that a heroin dealer cannot be held liable for a client's death if the heroin was only a contributing factor, and not necessarily the sole cause.
Not only does that likely mean a lesser sentence for Marcus Burrage, who received 20 additional years in prison because of the death, but a tougher time for prosecutors in general when it comes to extending drug sentences -- something the Obama administration had argued in November.
The fact that it took the highest court in this country to figure out that selling someone potentially fatal doesn't equal legal culpability for killing them is disturbing. Â Good to know Obama's bringing back the insane overreaction that marked the era of Reagan's psychotic expansion of the Drug/Morality War.
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
